#nocrimezone

Dane Van Domelen

April 18, 2019

“Snitches get stitches”

How can Baltimore become safer?

Improve schools

Improve the local economy

Reduce drug use (and trade, etc.)

Get guns off of the streets

Improve policing

Cameras

Baltimore Police CCTV

Johns Hopkins CCTV

Idea: Crowdsourced CCTV

Live demo (WCGW?)

https://vandomed.shinyapps.io/nocrimezone/

Technical points

Some initial concerns

Why I’m excited about it

  1. Free, immediate, non-governmental solution

Why I’m excited about it

  1. Free, immediate, non-governmental solution
  2. Lots of smartphones, lots of windows!

Why I’m excited about it

  1. Free, immediate, non-governmental solution
  2. Lots of smartphones, lots of windows!
  3. Potential to increase arrest and conviction rates

Why I’m excited about it

  1. Free, immediate, non-governmental solution
  2. Lots of smartphones, lots of windows!
  3. Potential to increase arrest and conviction rates
  4. Gets around JHU’s CCTV problems (rain, storage, resolution)

Why I’m excited about it

  1. Free, immediate, non-governmental solution
  2. Lots of smartphones, lots of windows!
  3. Potential to increase arrest and conviction rates
  4. Gets around JHU’s CCTV problems (rain, storage, resolution)
  5. 100% coverage doesn’t require (even close to) 100% participation

Why I’m excited about it

  1. Free, immediate, non-governmental solution
  2. Lots of smartphones, lots of windows!
  3. Potential to increase arrest and conviction rates
  4. Gets around JHU’s CCTV problems (rain, storage, resolution)
  5. 100% coverage doesn’t require (even close to) 100% participation
  6. Could impact opioid epidemic

Why I’m excited about it

  1. Free, immediate, non-governmental solution
  2. Lots of smartphones, lots of windows!
  3. Potential to increase arrest and conviction rates
  4. Gets around JHU’s CCTV problems (rain, storage, resolution)
  5. 100% coverage doesn’t require (even close to) 100% participation
  6. Could impact opioid epidemic
  7. Scales

Why I’m excited about it

  1. Free, immediate, non-governmental solution
  2. Lots of smartphones, lots of windows!
  3. Potential to increase arrest and conviction rates
  4. Gets around JHU’s CCTV problems (rain, storage, resolution)
  5. 100% coverage doesn’t require (even close to) 100% participation
  6. Could impact opioid epidemic
  7. Scales
  8. Solves “snitches get stitches” problem (sort of)

Why I’m excited about it

  1. Free, immediate, non-governmental solution
  2. Lots of smartphones, lots of windows!
  3. Potential to increase arrest and conviction rates
  4. Gets around JHU’s CCTV problems (rain, storage, resolution)
  5. 100% coverage doesn’t require (even close to) 100% participation
  6. Could impact opioid epidemic
  7. Scales
  8. Solves “snitches get stitches” problem (sort of)
  9. Wouldn’t it be nice…

Back to reality

Thanks!